Masses Quotes

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering pe...

Every crowd has a silver lining.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, ...

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told...

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, th...

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be di...

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows"...

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each y...

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through t...

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crow...

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of ...

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fo...

I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law i...

Religion is the opium of the masses.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that...